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Cooper
Asked: 2009-06-26 13:13:08 +0800 CST

Are there any good Unix FTPS clients that are developed in the US?

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I'm looking for an FTPS (explicit FTP over SSL) UNIX client.

I've checked out several, including those from this list on Wikipedia. Some of my favorites are lftp and cURL, however both are foreign source.

Does the serverfault community have any recommendations for U.S. developed FTPS clients, either open source or commercial? I'm primarily looking for any good clients that are not on that list, however I didn't exhaustively check out everything Wikipedia listed.

edit: Preference for command-line interface. A GUI client might be used as a last resort.

edit: Many of you share exactly my opinion of the "no foreign source" policy. It is completely retarded - I've brought up both Linux and PHP as examples of foreign source software that are used widely in our enterprise. It does frighten me that our security organization is so clueless, but never-the-less, we have been asked to look at U.S. developed options.

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    You'll never be able to use anything open source, because the chances of every contributor to the code being provably from the US is as near to zero as makes no difference. Getting a commercial product to certify that it's completely US-developed isn't going to be easy, either (unless it's just "sold by a US company" that's important, in which case it's a bit easier).

    Personally, I'd be running (not walking) away from a job that required me to only choose software based on such an irrelevant criteria as where the software was developed.

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  2. Not an answer to the question, but for the longest time the US had some, well, let's call them "not very wise" rules around encryption software.

    So probably as a result of that, most of the development of anything involving encryption moved out of the US.

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  3. Did you look at gFTP?

    http://gftp.seul.org/
    Written by

    Brian Masney [email protected]
    Morgantown, WV USA

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  4. vsftpd is widely used, and accepted in a lot of companies as well as the public service entities.

    I'm curious as to the reason it has to be US.. If you work for a Govt. (state or fed) entity, most have regulations encouraging the usage of open source software.

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  5. For Unix machines, you can use the very common daemon, vsFTPD and configure it to run securely using SSL. There are many many sites that give you the instructions on this and vsftpd is in RPM form and binary and also avaible on many respositories if you are a yum fan.

    As for clients, there are still many command line FTP clients that are preinstalled that can be configured to use encryption. If you are a GUI fan, you can use things like WinSCP to be configured to be FTP clients, CoreFTP, and a whole slew more. Just as long as you trust it.

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